Camtasia 2023 is here. My name is Joe and I cannot wait to show you all of the ways that this
is not only the best release we've ever made for Camtasia, but it's going to bring out the best
in you as a creator, not only to make more engaging content and more memorable, accessible
content, but to really connect with your audience with your personal brand and style leading the way.
So let's go ahead and walk through a few examples here of just how this is going to change the way you make videos.
Let's start with the hero of all screen videos, the cursor.
Camtasia 2023 is going to lift your cursor off your
screen recordings and connect with your viewers in a real meaningful way.
Let's go ahead and start with the example of like what most content out in the world looks like.
You look at screen videos out on YouTube or anywhere else and you're going to see tiny little cursors.
Aand Camtasia what we allow you to do is scale up those cursors to any size you want with vector replacements.
It doesn't matter how precise you are because it's always going to be sharp.
And it's always going to look really professional. I'm going to go ahead and take it to another level.
What if I want to use my corporate branding my colors? So I'm going to use the new cursor color effect.
I'm going to drag it on and you can see right away I have this ability to just swap some colors around.
Uh Let's see I'll go ahead and use like this nice color and why not an indigo?
And just like that it's going to apply to all my cursors -I'll go ahead and play back.
And I get this really nice look. Camtasia also allows you to edit the cursor path.
So I'm going to go ahead and enter my path editing mode. You can see where my path has traveled
from and where it's going to, and I'm just going to move some things aside
here so that I'm not covering up content.
Obviously it doesn't have to be perfect but I'm just making it nice and smooth and better.
I get this really nice smooth animation. Now I can also use my own images as cursors in Camtasia 2023.
So I'm going to go ahead and open the cursor image panel. And I'm going to go ahead and select
the Camtasia logo and just like that, I have this really nice look.
This really cool cursor that's branded. I can also import my own avatar.
So here I've got my avatar and now I'm able to sort of go through a nice little presentation
with my viewers with my avatar, I can also communicate collaborations so I can go to the next change here.
And and let's go ahead and select my friend Courtney.
And so she's going to now be presenting. And so I have the story
of collaboration in this video as well - just using the cursor.
We've also added an entire set of neon cursors exclusive to Camtasia 2023.
And you can look through these are beautifully designed by our designer Coco, and you really
have an over the top presentation and just get ready to while your viewers because frankly
there's nothing better than a cursor unicorn - just take a look.
We've also put the cursor images on the timeline So you can find where each action happens.
To not only switch out the cursor images, but also see where the edit points can be in your video.
Have you ever wanted to blend your footage in with another scene and just create that sense of
depth and realism, you know really pull your viewers in…well in Camtasia 2023 We've
introduced the corner pinning canvas editing mode.
And what this allows you to do is edit your footage in to other scenes in perspective and it's super fun.
With just a few clicks on the corners you get some really great results.
So here you can see I have this nice over the shoulder iPhone shot, and I've got some mobile footage that I took.
I'm just going to go ahead and move this closer to the iPhone. Maybe enlarge this a little bit
, and I'm just going to enter the corner pinning mode at the top of the screen.
And once I'm in this mode I can just grab a hold to some corners and I'm just going to match
them up - so left to left - right to right.
And you could see really quickly here This is all starting to come together with just a couple
clicks and drags I'm able to get a really nice effect.
And so you can see this looks really immersive. Another new way you can add expressive quality
to your videos and increase the visual interest is the new motion path effect.
Basically you can take that cursor pass swoosh that you see in our
cursor path editing and add it to any footage you can import into Camtasia.
Including titles that you get from our Camtasia 2023 library.
So here I have an example where I have three steps and I'm just going to
start by dragging the path effect onto the first step.
And let's go ahead and have it start oh, say right about here. And you can see I get this nice little slide down.
And what I'm going to do I'm just going to select this end point and I'm just going to move it
to the upper left quadrant of my window here cause I'm trying to describe the Camtasia workflow.
And so I'm going to go ahead and have that, oh set say right about there.
And let's go ahead and drag the path effect on over to step two here.
And let's have it start yeah right about there again I get that nice
little slide and I'm just going to go ahead and grab that end point.
And let's have it animate all the way right here to the bottom.
And finally step three I drag it on and it'll have it started right about here and it goes right
to about where I need it into this upper right quadrant.
And let's go ahead and see what we get just with a few simple clicks.
Really easy to add some expressive quality that makes the video easier to follow.
One of my favorite new features of Camtasia 2023 is located in the Camtasia 2023 library.
And they're called dynamic backgrounds. Their motion backgrounds
that allow you to customize and personalize to really your heart's content.
Let me just show you how easy and fun this is. So I'm going to go in and select this radial lights I have going here.
And I can really quickly locate the properties and start changing colors.
So let's go ahead and add some yellow in here maybe a little magenta.
And then when I start playing around with these sliders I can make it go faster I can slow it down.
I can change this into more of a wave. I can make the lights smaller.
I can make them larger. I can change the angle and without really any effort it just looks beautiful.
Now I could also apply this to titling I can put footage over top of this and you get this
really beautiful look and we didn't stop there.
We added over 30 new Camtasia filters to the visual effects library.
These allow you to quickly change the look feel and
overall mood of a scene by just simply clicking and dragging.
and adding these to your footage. We've also added the ability to customize dynamic motion
graphics called Lottie files, they're found all over the web and in the Camtasia 2023 library.
Here I have a UI element animating. And what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to go ahead and select it.
And let's change the color to something more expressive here Let's go... yeah that's kind of a nice color.
Just opening the color picker I get a really nice look.
Let's move to one that's perhaps a little bit more expressive here is this
really cool character you know levitating with all these ideas and knowledge.
So let's go ahead and select this character and make make it pop a little bit more.
So let's go ahead and make the hair a little brighter. And let's see let's go ahead and change.
Oh how about the shirt color? And you can see I kind of get that book with it for free I can go for a real dark a real bright.
How about we go with that indigo? And let's see how about we start changing some of these
colors around too so I can sort of dark in these maybe I can add a little bit more contrast this way.
and just get a little bit more refined looked for my video.
And let's take a look at what this looks like. Color is so much fun to play with and Lottie
files are just a whole other level of expression for your videos.
Create a beautiful composition with our new canvas rulers and guides.
Simply click on a ruler drag a guide out
and after a few clicks you'll have a perfect layout just ready to be made.
We've also added the ability to launch any TechSmith recorder, right from inside of Camtasia.
If you have Snagit or Audiate installed simply click on the app recorder launcher, and you can
go gather your audio footage and your images from your favorite TechSmith apps.
And there's a new visual effect that has some real smart horsepower and that is our background removal effect.
Get the look that you see on the Tik-Toks of the world and all over social media by just
simply dragging this effect onto your webcam footage and watch as your background disappears.
Camtasia 2023. Loaded with amazing capabilities and
we really only just scratched the surface of all of it's in this awesome release.
I hope you'll go out and get it today and join me in this amazing creative journey that we have in front of us.